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TIL Britons eat 97% of the world’s baked beans

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1XZd TIL potatoes have almost all nutrients humans need to survive. To prove this, the Executive Director from the Washington State Potato Commission ate nothing but potatoes for 60 days.
7rJnL TIL that Sean Bean was the voice actor of Martin from The Elder Scrolls - Oblivion
Wv4d TIL that in the 70’s, Chuck Berry toured with only a guitar, finding some local bands for each show “confident that he could hire a band that already knew his music” and not even giving them a set list “and just expected the musicians to follow his lead”.
V9MZ TIL that when a study was done on people who suffered from constant/chronic Déjà Vu, a man declined to take part because he felt like he had done it before
e0oan TIL about Rick Parker, a corrupt boxing promoter who poisoned his fighter's opponent when he refused to throw a fight. The opponent, Tim Anderson, survived and murdered Parker. Anderson is now serving life in prison.